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an update on one of the biggest names in college basketball after a run-in with the law. and later, mixed messages on the state of the u.s. economy. empty malls but americans still spending. inflation high, but dropping with less credit available. cost of living has really increased a lot, so it s getting a little harder to do things that, you know, i would typically do. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this father s day. tonight we begin with a new diplomatic push aimed at cooling tensions with china. secretary of state antony blinken arrived in beijing sunday for two days of high-stakes talks. it s the first u.s. diplomatic mission there in five years. cbs s margaret brennan is traveling with the secretary in beijing and leads us off tonight. reporter: jericka, after more than 5 1/2 hours of intense and very direct talks between secretary blinken and his chinese counterpart ....
Weekend is meteorologist lisa argen. Lisa, are we talking a little rain or just a little rain . Not everyones going to see it, but itll bring much better air quality. But were going to get into the better air quality as soon as tomorrow. Another spare the air alert today is lingering haze and smoke will be with us this saturday. Weve got some rain clouds to the south in Southern California and that cold front on the way to the north. So today, well call it partly cloudy. We have the air quality that is just not what were used to. Right. But, you know, its been a little bit better into the afternoon. But still covered in blue here. That means that were going to have hazy conditions all throughout the day. Sea breeze is going to be with us. So well continue to see and feel that which could improve at some point, allowing for some better air quality in spots. But youll notice the north bay, the coast and central bay may get hit ....
Those hazy skies this week. Is it looking better today . Yeah we were talking about the worst day being tuesday and each day after that, certainly hazy, but not as bad. And were in that realm again today as we have another spare the air alert. The cold front is on the way, though, for monday. That will really help us out. But between now and then, were going to see some improvements slowly, certainly as we get into your sunday live doppler seven, partly cloudy skies. This was a look at our sutro tower camera. You can see the haze there. Poor air quality north bay coast and central bay with moderate air quality elsewhere. Everyone improves tomorrow and it is 56. Downtown, 57 in Mountain View, half moon bay. And well be looking at some haze with partly cloudy conditions today to mostly sunny 55 in concord. But temperatures remain below average, mainly in the upper 60s from San Franci ....
Are expecting some big changes. We still have a spare the air alert that is lingered day after day due to the hazy conditions. The north winds still not totally shut off. So were looking at some of that smoke from the north still being brought into the bay area. But look at that. Weve got a cold front that is going to clean everything out, bring fire ending rain to extreme Northern California. So some really good news there. Heres a look at live doppler seven moderate air quality right now. That means were in the yellow and well look for these hazy conditions. This is a 24 hour loop that shows the blue indicating, yeah, were going to have some of that high elevation smoke. But by the time we get to the second half of our weekend skies will be much clearer. So poor air quality, mainly north bay, the coast and central bay. Then everyone gets into the good air quality. Tomorrow it is 59 in oakland, 57 in fremont. And as we look ....
Through tomorrow. The poor air quality for both days. And were going to take a look at that visible satellite picture because one thing you may notice is there are multiple fires burning, not just around. And the oregon area, but we also have fires burning right around Northern California. So when you take a look there, you have that one right there around the western side of oregon. We have another one, northwestern california. And that smoke is just coming into our area. So were going to have to deal with it. In addition to all of this fire danger will be elevated for the north bay mountains, lake and solano counties starting at 11 p. M. Tonight when that red flag warning goes up. Ill be back with a closer look at that fire danger and when air quality will improve in just a minute larry. All right, sandy, thank you. Well see you in a few minutes with the seven day forecast. Sandy just mentioned the wildfires causing our bad ....